Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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gine, that two cords or lines of equal thickneſs, be drawn through
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two holes of equal bore; but ſo that the firſt paſs with quadruple
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velocity to the ſecond: It is manifeſt, that if in a determinate
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time, we ſhall by the firſt bore have drawn four Ells of the line,
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in the ſame time, by the ſecond hole we ſhall have drawn but one
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Ell of cord onely; and if by the firſt there paſſe twelve Ells, then
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through the ſecond there ſhall paſſe onely three Ells; and in
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ſhort the quantity of cord ſhall have the ſame proportion to the
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cord, that the volocity hath to the velocity. </
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deſiring to compenſate the tardity of the ſecond cord, and main
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taining the ſame tardity to draw through the ſecond hole as much
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cord as through the firſt, it will be neceſſary to draw through the
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ſecond bore four ends of cord; ſo that the thickneſs of all the
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cords by the ſecond hole, have the ſame proportion to the thick
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neſs of the cord which paſſeth onely by the firſt, as the velocity
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of the cord by the firſt hole hath reciprocally to the velocity of
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the codrs by the ſecond hole. </
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there is drawn through two holes equal quantity of cords in
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equal time, but with unequal velocity, it will be neceſſary, that
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the thickneſs of all the four cords ſhall have the ſame reciprocal
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proportion to the thickneſs of the ſwifter cord, that the velo
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city of the ſwifter cord hath to the velocity of the ſlower. </
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which is verified likewiſe in the fluid Element of Water.</
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ſtood, I will alſo note a certain obſervation made my me in the
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Art of Wyer-drawing, or ſpinning Gold, Silver, Braſs, and Iron,
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and it is this; That ſuch Artificers deſiring more and more to
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diſgroſſe and ſubtillize the ſaid Metals, having would about a
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ocket or Barrel, the thread of the Metal, they place the Roc
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ket in a frame upon a ſtedfaſt Axis, in ſuch ſort that the Rocket
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may turn about in it ſelf; then making one end of the thread to
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paſſe by force through a Plate of Steel pierced with divers holes,
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greater and leſſer, as need requireth, faſtning the ſame end of the
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thread to another Rocket, they wind up the thread, which paſ
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ſing through a bore leſs than the thickneſſe of the thread, is of
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force conſtrained to diſgroſſe and ſubtillize. </
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intenſly to be obſerved in this buſineſs, is this, That the parts of
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the thread before the hole, are of ſuch a thickneſſe, but the parts
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of the ſame thread after it is paſſed the hole, are of a leſſer thick
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neſſe: and yet nevertheleſſe the maſſe and weight of the thread
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which is drawn forth, is ever equal to the maſſe and weight of the
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thread which is winded up. </
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ter, we ſhould finde, that the thicker the thread before the hole is,
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than the thread paſſed the hole, the greater reciprocally is the </
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